apple is down today because of a big management shakeup and that's pressuring technology stocks, but aside from that, if you didn't know what happened in the last 48 hours, you'd think this was a relatively normal day on wall street. >> all right, that's good to know as everybody gets back to work. as we pointed out, they have not halted trading for two straight days apes 1888 so people back to work. ron insana, appreciate it. >>> president obama maintaining a slight lead in the battleground state of ohio. what does that mean for the key stone state and there's an ad war starting in pennsylvania. some think that it could be in play all based on what's going on in ohio. former governor ed rendell will join me next about that. >>> first it was rain and wind and now fire. new blazes are popping up along the already battered jersey shore. we'll get you updated on that. >>> we encourage you to send pictures of the storm if you have it. tweet us and make sure you include the hash tag #msnbcpics and we'll try to use them on air. i'm a conservative investor. i invest in what i know. i turned